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Mike Bloomberg was booed during his debut debate as a Democratic presidential candidate — indicative of a rusty outing where the former New York mayor looked unprepared to respond to obvious lines of attack.
Why it matters … The debate underscored the Bloomberg’s campaign biggest fear: It’s hard to hide to his prickly demeanor. Bloomberg had all the time, practice and forewarning money could buy — and still struggled mightily on the public stage.
- But it’d be foolish to assume blanket ads can’t undo the damage. Elizabeth Warren said on MSNBC: “I have no doubt that he is about to drop, tonight, another hundred million dollars on his campaign … in order to try to erase America’s memory of what happened on that debate stage.”
Warren drew cheers when she challenged Bloomberg to release women from “nondisclosure agreements both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.”
- Bloomberg: “We have a very few nondisclosure agreements.”
- Warren: “How many is that?”
- Bloomberg: “Let me finish.”
- Warren: “How many is that?”
- Bloomberg: “None of them accuse me of doing anything, other than maybe they didn’t like a joke I told. … They signed the agreements and that’s what we’re going to live with.”
The audience booed when Bloomberg later said: “I’ve said we’re not going … to end these agreements because they were made consensually, and they have every right to expect that they will stay private.”…
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Will the debate performance matter?
Would a Bloomberg levelling off help Joe Biden?
image…John Locher/AP
They all got booed at various times. (and cheered at others)
No it won’t matter.
The sexual angle is gone.
Trump has proved that.Oh there will be a lot of talk about it among people who would never support Bloomberg if he was named Family man of the year.
Bloomberg remains the most likely survivor to battle it out with Bernie in the end.
Money Mike needs to get BETTER or the media will turn him like the others…And Bernie is already starting against the former mayor…
You said that about Trump.
He never got “better”(at least in your eyes) and got elected President.
As I’ve constantly said,these debates ,while being prime time media events?Are having less and less effect on the voters.
Trump proved that.
Obviously Bloomberg has never been ,and will likely never be ,a great media performer.Howrver, several well done ads saturating the airwaves have far more effect that these debates.If he is willing to drop the bucks he claims he’s willing to?
Then he will continue to be a major player
Bloomberg is completely charisma-free.
He ought to make the best out of his situation and *own* his smugness and arrogance. Be authentic.
The question about the NDA could have been responded to so much better. Just say that 40-45 years ago he probably said things he regretted and told what would now be considered inappropriate jokes and that he feels bad about it now, and is able to admit fault and seek forgiveness, unlike Trump, whom happens to have been credibly accused of assault by multiple women and is on tape bragging about it.
Bloomberg could have said that while Trump has said he has never felt the need to ask G-d for forgiveness, that he, Bloomberg has done so many times, especially yearly on Yom Kippur. The media would have ate that answer up.
And the two other 70 something guys on stage, considering what they either wrote about women many years ago or what they have been seen on video doing, really would have no place to talk.
I told everyone here BOTH recent GOP Big Apple Mayors were NOT all that…
Had their opponents won, NYC would be worse off than Detroit right now.
For the information of others, their Democratic opponents were:
Rudolph Giuliana
David Dinkins (1989-won, 1993-lost & Ruth Messinger, 1997-lost
Michael Bloomberg
Mark Green (2001), Fernando Ferrer (2005) & Bill Thompson (2009) — all lost.
For election statistics and links to these candidates’ Wikipeidia articles, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_mayoral_elections
I don’t really know that New York would have been worse off if any of them, rather than Giuliani or Bloomberg, had become Mayor. Or if the voters’ democratic choice of twenty straight years (1 Jan. 1993 – 31 Dec. 2012) without a Democratic mayor (following only 4 years of David Dinkins and 12 years of Ed Koch) really benefitted Gotham City.
The reduction in the crime rate seems to speak for itself. And it definitely became far more of an international tourist attraction once again.
Maybe james is happier now with deBlasio though.
Crime in NYC dropped yes….
By the NYPD and some feel economics of the country…
There WAS and still IS a bad taste in the mouth’s of minorities in the city…
deBlasio is a lefty….
His police leadership has backed away from hardcore targeting minorities….
de Balsio’s wife is black, his kids mixed…
He is MUCH more sensitive to black/white issues and policing…
The police literally hate deBlasio.
Not a great situation for any city and crime is going up.
Joe Biden HAS to be smiling….
Democrats are having second thoughts about Mike Bloomberg after he fell flat in his debate stage debut.
Before Wednesday night’s performance — which Democrats across the board labeled “terrible” and “pathetic” — many in the party were hopeful the former New York City mayor would emerge as a strong competitor to front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who continues to gain momentum.
But Bloomberg’s debate implosion left a lot to be desired.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone look worse in a debate,” said one Democratic strategist who is a veteran of presidential campaigns. “Sometimes it seemed like he wasn’t on stage, sometimes he seemed out of touch, sometimes he seemed like he hadn’t prepped. It was a combination of bad.”
Democratic strategist Christy Setzer said it “just goes to show that having unlimited money and the most talented team in the world doesn’t matter if you refuse to do basic preparation.”
“That’s how it read to me: that Bloomberg believed he was above preparation even on the most obvious lines of attack. No wonder best-student-in-class [Sen.] Elizabeth Warren [D-Mass.] utterly crushed him,” Setzer added.
During the debate, Warren pummeled Bloomberg, painting him as a misogynist and an out-of-touch billionaire…
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Warrens attacks on Bloomberg were puzzling.
Bloomberg isn’t her problem.Bernie is.Hes the one corralling votes on the Left that would likely have gone to her.
She’s already pretty much out of it ,but what little chance she has is draining support from Sanders.
What’s she trying to do?Become the new “moderate” opponent to Bernie?
Well she got a lot of attention and landed a few on Bloomberg,but what good did it do her candidacy?
SHe pretty much hates rich business people after experiences with bankruptcy law…
The media is buzzing about Warren though. She had to do something, so she set out to make Bloomberg appear to be worse than Trump.
For whatever lousy things he has probably said in his life, he has never been accused of improperly touching someone or attempting to coerce them for sexual favors.
I just don’t see where she goes from here.
At some point you have to “win.”
Right now, arguably, the only place she looks to be a winner. is Massachusetts, her home state.
The Democratic nominee will be a white male over 70…..
Did you have a vision?
Please tell me he looked like Mitt…
Warren must have heard you Jack. She’s going after Sanders now–calling on him to release his medical records
In last night’s debate, everyone was trying to get their two stents in.
Sen. Warren may not be shrill, but she sure is strident and monotonic (with a single note of outraged earnestness or earnest outrage).